Re: The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: gearond(at)cvc(dot)net, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-03-14 20:57:02
Message-ID: 23568.1047675422@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Do you have as much trouble reading those all-uppercase queries as I do?

Yeah, I hate 'em. It's well established that lowercase text is more
readable than uppercase. I think it's okay style to upcase a few
critical keywords like SELECT, FROM, WHERE, but beyond that give me
lowercase ...

But quite aside from questions of taste, we'd need an answer to the
backwards-compatibility problems before we could think about this.
Switching to the spec's notions about case would make autocommit look
like a nonissue :-(

regards, tom lane

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